Style Manuals | Handbooks and Historical Methodology | History Departments and Graduate School | Professional Materials |

Style Manuals

• Chicago Manual of Style. 15th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  Probably the standard guide concerning grammar, punctuation, quotations, documentation, for paper writing.
  King Ref Z 253 .U69 2003
• Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age. Diana Hacker.3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins,2002.
  King Ref LB2369.H33 2002
  see website: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
• David Warlich's Landmark Project. Citation Machine. Online. Available: http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/ . July 6, 2004.
• A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Kate Turabian. (John Grossman and Alice Bennett eds.) 6th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. (Turabian's Manual)
  A distillation of the Chicago manual, especially good for quick, standard bibliographic formats.
  King Ref LB 2369 .T8 1996
• For a guide to numerous online sites, see our guide to online citation cites at: http://www.lib.muohio.edu/onlineref/ and select Citation Guides and Style Manuals.

Handbooks and Historical Methodology

• Green, Anna and Kathleen Troup, eds. Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth Century History and Theory . New York: New York University Press, 1999.
• Munslow, Alan. The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies . London: Routledge, 2000.
• Barzum, Jacques and Henry F. Graff. The Modern Researcher . 6 th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson, 2004.
• Marius, Richard and Melvin E. Page. A Short Guide to Writing About History . 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2002.
• Storey, William Kelleher. Writing History: A Guide for Students . 2 nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

History Departments and Graduate School

• Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations and Historians. Washington, D.C. : American Historical Association, Institutional Services Program, 2001-
  List of faculty, programs, and requirements. Includes excellent description of major historical archives and their collecitons. Lists doctoral dissertations completed and in progress.
  King Ref D16.3 .G83 and http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/45
• Guide to Graduate Programs in Public History. Parker Hubbard Cohen, ed. Indianapolis: NCPH, 1996.
  Directory with program descriptions and requirements. Includes faculty.
  King Ref D16.3 .G842 1996
• Directory of Graduate Programs in American Studies
  http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/publications/gradguide/index.htm http://chnm.gmu.edu/assets/historydepts/departments.php
• Guide to History Departments Around the World (from the Center for History and the New Media)
  Searchable index.
  http://chnm.gmu.edu/assets/historydepts/departments.php

Professional Materials and Contacts

• Becoming a Historian: A Survival Manual. Melanie S. Gustafson. [Washington, D.C.] : Committee on Women Historians and the American Historical Association, 2001
  D13 .B397 2001.
• H-net.
  Provides a list of listservs/disscussion lists at:http://www.h-net.org/
  Also look at the section on announcements which inlcudes conferences and calls for publications.see: http://www.h-net.org/announce/